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Discriminating Violence Emanating from Over‐controlled versus Under‐controlled Aggressivity
Author(s) -
FISHER GARY
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1970.tb00638.x
Subject(s) - hostility , aggression , psychology , alienation , white (mutation) , race (biology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , chemistry , sociology , political science , law , gender studies , biochemistry , gene
An attempt to validate the O‐H (Over‐controlled Hostility) scale in distinguishing over‐controlled aggression from under‐controlled aggression, utilizing felons who were ( a ) chronically violent (UC‐V), ( b ) typically non‐violent but who acted out violently on one occasion (OC‐V), and ( c ) non‐violent (N‐V), was unsuccessful. The OC‐V tend to be white, whereas the UC‐V tend to be Negro, and Negroes consistently scored higher than whites. It is suggested that the O‐H scale, besides measuring control, is strongly influenced by a race‐related factor, possibly social alienation, and that such a variable must be taken into account in predicting over‐controlled aggression.